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Congratulations to Olivia Magneson ’23 for several recent accomplishments! … Olivia won first place at the American Asso...
03/30/2026

Congratulations to Olivia Magneson ’23 for several recent accomplishments! … Olivia won first place at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Spring Clinical’s Early-Career Investigator Symposium, successfully defended her MS thesis in Medical Physics at LSU, where she also won the Gross Family Medical Physics Research Award, and she just was matched with University Hospital at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH for her residency, where she will be a part of the Radiation Oncology division. What incredible achievements, Olivia!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Pitonyak for being named the nation’s top faculty member for research with undergraduate students...
11/10/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Pitonyak for being named the nation’s top faculty member for research with undergraduate students, receiving the American Physical Society (APS) 2026 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution!

Congratulations to Dr. Pitonyak, Michael Harris ‘26, Jacob Marsh ‘25, and Jack Putnam ‘25 who, along with collaborators ...
08/26/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Pitonyak, Michael Harris ‘26, Jacob Marsh ‘25, and Jack Putnam ‘25 who, along with collaborators from Penn State Berks and the University of Tuebingen, published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Letters B. The paper, “Transverse single-spin asymmetries in γSIDIS as a direct probe of quark-gluon-quark longitudinal momentum structure,” gave numerical estimates for the future Electron-Ion Collider for the production of photons from the high-energy collisions of electrons with transversely polarized protons. They found the observable has the potential to provide unprecedented information on quark-gluon-quark correlations inside of protons. The research was supported by Dr. Pitonyak’s National Science Foundation grant.

Dr. Pitonyak was the speaker at LVC’s 156th Commencement by virtue of winning the 2024 Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished...
05/12/2025

Dr. Pitonyak was the speaker at LVC’s 156th Commencement by virtue of winning the 2024 Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teaching Award.

We’re glad to have met up with some of our Physics majors yesterday after Commencement. Congratulations Class of 2025!
05/12/2025

We’re glad to have met up with some of our Physics majors yesterday after Commencement. Congratulations Class of 2025!

Congratulations to all our Physics majors who presented at the Inquiry Symposium and also our department award winners! ...
04/25/2025

Congratulations to all our Physics majors who presented at the Inquiry Symposium and also our department award winners!

Justin DeShong ‘25 presented on his NSF-funded quantum information science research with Dr. Lyons. Michael Harris ‘26, Jacob Marsh ‘25, and Jack Putnam ‘25 presented on their NSF-funded computational nuclear physics research with Dr. Pitonyak. And Sophie Piepmeier ‘25 presented her education research during her student teaching at Cedar Crest.

Justin DeShong ‘25 won the Outstanding Achievement Award in Physics and Outstanding Senior in Mathematics Award. Sophie Piepmeier ‘25 won the Outstanding Service Award in Physics. Benjamin Kegerreis ‘28 and Sarah Wray ‘28 won the First Year Achievement Award in Physics. Excellent work, everyone!

Jack Putnam ‘25 gave a great poster presentation today (“Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Inclusive DIS and the SID...
03/18/2025

Jack Putnam ‘25 gave a great poster presentation today (“Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Inclusive DIS and the SIDIS Production of Photons: Numerical Predictions using Models for Multi-Parton Correlators”) at the American Physical Society (APS) Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, CA! He presented NSF-funded research performed last summer with Dr. Pitonyak, Michael Harris ‘26, and Jacob Marsh ‘25.

Michael Harris ‘26 gave a great talk today (“Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in the SIDIS Production of Photons: Mode...
03/16/2025

Michael Harris ‘26 gave a great talk today (“Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in the SIDIS Production of Photons: Modeling Multi-Parton Correlators in the Nucloen”) at the American Physical Society (APS) Group on Hadronic Physics Workshop in Anaheim, CA! He presented NSF-funded research performed last summer with Dr. Pitonyak, Jacob Marsh ‘25, and Jack Putnam ‘25. Jack will be presenting a poster at the APS Global Physics Summit on Tuesday.

Congratulations to Michael Harris ‘26, who was accepted into the Department of Energy’s highly-selective Summer Undergra...
03/12/2025

Congratulations to Michael Harris ‘26, who was accepted into the Department of Energy’s highly-selective Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program! Michael will work this summer for 10 weeks with physicists at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia on applying AI/ML to extract information on the internal structure of the proton.

Read more about Penn Smith ‘25 and his journey so far at LVC as a quadruple major, three-sport athlete, peer tutor, publ...
11/19/2024

Read more about Penn Smith ‘25 and his journey so far at LVC as a quadruple major, three-sport athlete, peer tutor, published researcher, conference presenter, and lab teaching assistant! https://tinyurl.com/5d9pbxh3

Nov. 7 was the International Day of Medical Physics, which attempts to showcase the profound impact physics has on medic...
11/11/2024

Nov. 7 was the International Day of Medical Physics, which attempts to showcase the profound impact physics has on medical technology and patient care. We highlight LVC Physics alumna Jackie Kain ‘10, who received her MS in Medical Physics from Columbia University. She is currently a board certified Diagnostic Medical Physicist and Assistant Radiation Safety Officer at Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Health and serves as a faculty member in the Imaging Physics Residency Program at UPenn. Read more about her story here: https://tinyurl.com/mmpae7np

LVC Physics and LVC Physics Club are excited to participate in the STEM in the Community Night on Tuesday, 6-8pm at Annv...
11/08/2024

LVC Physics and LVC Physics Club are excited to participate in the STEM in the Community Night on Tuesday, 6-8pm at Annville Elementary! Join us for some fun hands-on demos! Some of the ideas that will be explored are

Can you hit the target?: How the angle and velocity of a projectile affect its motion

How fast can you spin and balance yourself?: Experience the effects of conservation of angular momentum

How do we generate electricity?: Fun with Faraday’s law

Can you get the LED to turn on?: Building basic circuits

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